family cruciferae

1. 1.

   a large family of plants with four-petaled flowers; includes mustards, cabbages, broccoli, turnips, cresses, and their many relatives

   SynonymsCruciferaeBrassicaceaefamily Brassicaceaemustard family

   Broaderdilleniid dicot family

   Part ofRhoeadales

Questions about family cruciferae

What does family cruciferae mean?

family cruciferae means "a large family of plants with four-petaled flowers; includes mustards, cabbages, broccoli, turnips, cresses, and their many relatives".

What is another word for family cruciferae?

Close synonyms include Cruciferae, Brassicaceae, family Brassicaceae, mustard family. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is family cruciferae a common word?

family cruciferae is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.